Data

In the fall of 1940, the Chef der Zivilveraltung demanded that each person considered Jewish and still present in Luxembourg declare all their assets on forms designed for this purpose: the Verzeichnisse über das Vermögen von Juden (declarations of Jewish assets).

This chapter explores the evolving landscape of web archiving. It considers how web archives document challenging times, may help to analyse them, and respond to events, disruptions, social demands, and crises. It examines emergency response practices and research trends. The chapter also addresses current and forthcoming challenges such as adapting to platformization, AI, the closure of APIs, and evolving legal frameworks.

The rise of public history is the result of an unfolding technological-epistemological transformation. Gradual changes in media technologies, historiography, museology and museography until well into the 1970s can be considered as a pre-history of public history. During the last third of the twentieth century the rise of memory and related historiographical changes went hand in hand with an increased influence of analogue and digital media that impacted communication, documentation and preservation.

Situated in the centre of Europe and bordered by France and Germany, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is a multicultural, multilingual and a cross-border area par excellence. With a level of material well-being more than 37% above the European average, an unemployment rate of 5.2% and sound public finances, Luxembourg is currently one of the of the most politically stable and prosperous countries in the world, well-known for its social model.

Today, extending the lifespan of technology—defined as the period during which a particular technology is in actual use—through maintenance and repair is often regarded as an act of environmentalism. This sustainable practice can help reduce the wasteful impact of capitalist economies. But what happens when we look closer at the materials used to prolong the life of technology—materials that themselves have significant environmental impacts?

This project will conceptualize and implement a multi-lingual Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in 2023 and 2024 in order to train European journalism students in EU coverage. To this end, a consortium of seven journalism institutes from EU universities (in alphabetic order: Belgium, Germany, Greece, Poland, Portugal, and Romania) has teamed up with the European Journalism Training Association (EJTA). Established in Brussels in 1990, EJTA groups about 80 journalism centers, schools and universities from about 30 countries across Europe.

„Minett Stories“ (https://minett-stories.lu) erzählt für ein breites Publikum die Geschichte des Minetts, der Industrieregion im Süden Luxemburgs. Sie stellt nicht die Entwicklung der Bergbau- und Hüttentechnik, der großen Hüttenwerke und Stahlbarone in den Mittelpunkt, sondern die Alltagsgeschichte einer Industrieregion. Die Online-Ausstellung wurde im Mai 2022 im Rahmen der Europäischen Kulturhauptstadt Esch2022 der Öffentlichkeit vorgestellt. Der Vortrag beschreibt die Entwicklung und Umsetzung des Ausstellungskonzepts.

Digital humanities has a critical role in the progress of the data visualisation field. First, humanities scholars engage with the concept of knowledge as interpretation. Second, they leverage computational tools and statistical methods to analyse and visualise data and metadata. Finally, Digital Humanities projects are a space for experimentation where different epistemic cultures (which often go beyond the Humanities and Computer Science) negotiate new forms of knowledge.

The Bridge Forum Dialogue and The Robert Triffin Lecture 2024, titled "The evolution of Europe’s financial response to challenges: what should come next?" was organised by The Bridge Forum Dialogue and the Europe Direct at the University of Luxembourg (ED-UNILU) together with their partners – the University of Luxembourg (Uni.lu), Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH), the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), the European Parliament (EP) and the Robert Triffin International Foundation (RTI).

Inégalement préservés, les RSN entrent dans les enjeux d’archivage du web de manière plus ou moins précoce. La Bibliothèque nationale de France [BnF] a archivé Dailymotion entre 2007 et 2013, Twitter depuis 2012 et YouTube à partir de 2017. L’Institut national de l’audiovisuel [Ina] archive YouTube et Vimeo depuis 2009-2010 et Twitter depuis 2014. Si toutes les plateformes ne bénéficient pas encore d’une activité de captures régulières, de nouveaux projets de collecte améliorent la couverture. Ainsi la BnF gère des collectes Instagram depuis 2020 et TikTok depuis 2022.

In a difficult socio-economic context and a geopolitical environment marked by uncertainty, the European elections - scheduled from 6 to 9 June 2024 in the 27 EU Member States - represent a crucial moment with many issues at stake for democracy, solidarity and cohesion on our continent. To face up to these unprecedented societal and transnational challenges, Europe must not only revive the lessons of history to empower countries, regions and communities, but above all encourage the participation and commitment of citizens, among whom the younger generations occupy a place of choice.

This presentation has explored the historical origins and the complexity of building a security policy at European Union level, as well as the major challenges in this area raised by the enlargement of the European Union to Central and Eastern Europe and the prospect of future enlargements to an even wider region (Moldova, Ukraine, the Western Balkans, etc.).